This week, Sumana has chosen for the Midweek Motif the title and first line of a poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, ‘The World Is A Beautiful Place’. She has also shared quotations from Milton and Marcus du Sautoy. She says that whether the world is truly beautiful or not depends on an individual’s perspectives of the world – it’s an open ended line.

You are right about humans. They destroy each other and everything around them. The world is very beautiful in spite of us.But for how long?Did you know that we have even managed to create a trail of pollution and rubbish floating around in space already.?

Yes! I think we’re on the same wave length in our poems. I love the beauty revealed in your vignettes, and how the last verses bring home that humans are not necessarily part of that beauty. Some of us are good stewards and partners and citizens of earth–despite the fact that our natural environments seem to be add-ons like buildings and fences and concrete and waste–despite the fact that to “add on” we usually co-opt, rape, steal, kill resources from the earth–or live unconsciously in the pillage others have sold to us. Send out the poem, Kim. Show us a way forward, starting with awareness.

“and the world is still/beautiful”: That is a perfect refrain in this verse.
Despite all the destruction brought forth by humans, there are beautiful things in this world.
Really like the short stanzas and the visuals they create. Well-penned. 🙂
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I love the serenity of the lines till I came to the close and felt like hanging my head in shame. I don’t understand why some humans are made this way. Love how the poem ends with a faith in Mother Nature. It’s a beautiful poem Kim.